Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.Marcus Aurelius
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.Nikola Tesla
There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine.Nikola Tesla
The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.Nikola Tesla
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.Pablo Picasso
Man is not sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.Jean-Paul Sartre
